South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-07-08

ora,ive OF ths birth Of the nation.
There were over so FIRE companies
G. A. r. posts and military orcani-
cations in The city from this and some
Of The adjoining States. Tho grand
parsde. the trades display and tho
bicycle parade an,l drill were cspe-
cially tine features OF the celebration.
Able speeches were mad, by G.. X.
Hsr', editor Of the Wheeling Intcsli-
gencer. Hon. W Il. II. Flick, amt 9th
er.. and the day was ono long To bc
remembered ty Maf,insburge,s. AT
Keyser, there was big picnic under
the auspices OF New Greek Council
National Union. the Declaration OF
Independence wss read by Hon. e.
w. Daley. and speeches werc made
by Hon. +. NJ. Reynolds and others.
In fact. all over the whole lengL and
breadth of The land North. South,
East and West, there was such n gen.
eral observance OF the day and out
pouring OF patriotic sentiment as have
not been witnessed since the days be-
fore the war.
TIC greater part Of tile City OF
New Orleans H., WAS under water
Thursday, owing 10 heavy fail of
rain sDd dofectivc drainage. Consid-
er .b'e damage TO property was done.
a freight train consisting OF 23
refrigerator cars containiug dressed
beef loft the track near St. Tho mas,
Ont, Monday Fifteen cars wre
completely wrecked. Two tramps.
who were stealing ride, were killed.
Tie Rev. George w. Woodward.
who died in Chicago las: week. vas
direc. descendant OF Captain Miles
Standi h, and grandson Of the first
professor in Dartmouth College.
Gen. Simon Cameron will sail for
Europe July IS, to be gone till Sep
tcmb,r.
DIR. Charles S. Thomson, Of Hart.
ford, Conn.,. is tho oldes, living grad-
ua'o Of tho Yale medicine school. He
was graduate | in 1929.
George NJ. Pullman. OF palace car
fame, W Ill visit Italy next month and.
it is said, will be created duke by
King Humbert.
An effort was made this week to
raise the British priva,eer De Braak,
which is supposed 10 have been sunk
III l19S in the Delaware river with
two Spanish galleons containing nine
million dollars-A thousand pounds
of nitro glycerine exploded at Find
lay. Ohio, destroying the factory In
which IL was made, AMI causing u
shock like that of an earthquake.
Queen Kapiolani, oil Hawaii, Sand.
witch Islands, sailed from London for
| New York Saiu.day-A fightwas arr
ranged in Boston betw cen Jack Nc
Aulitfe, light weight champion O.
America, and Jem Carney. lights
weight champion OF England, for
81, 500 side. an is 10 tske place
between the first and sixth days of
| October. within 500 miles OF Boston.
The cost OF maintaining tho guard
At the Cookery farm 10y tue Cumber-
land and Pennsylvania railroad up to
June was $i3.500.-On Monday
last TO-. 900 messages were handled
in the Western Union main Office in
New York being the heaviest day in
the record Of lelfgrsphy-Tbe Sum
Gay School Society OF The Baltimore
| Conference of the III. +. Church South
met at Winchester this week
There are more ex Union o!diers
now i'll the governn ent employ than
under anv former administration ~.
X. Vanderbilt sailed saturday in his
yacht Alva on tour of the worl.i.
Two thousand men were thrown out
Of nploymcnt by the closing OF the
Re ling (Pa.) Iron Works They re.
ia. 10 accept a reduction Of ten per
ceot ia tLeir waees--Cen. Lander
Post no >, G.. a. II of Lynn. Mass,
accompanied by The American Drum
Corps, The entire party numbering
80 mcn. left Boston Sa urday for
trip to Gettysburg. Richmond aud tue
battle fields Of The South-rhe Usah
constitutions! convention. composed
OF Is delegates elected A. tio county
mees convention, met in Salt Lakp
City and effcc.td o permanent organs
izat'on. IL il pro Josed 10 apply for
al mission as State The wheat crop
Of East Tennessee is The largest raised
for twenty years. ard the graiE IL of
very fl1e quality. The q ebt If New
York has been reduced TO less than
$1,000, 900. The dec ease IN the no.
ii0naI debt for the uonth Of Jnnc was
sl6,s52,725.